AirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1 Posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1754 times:
They ended the broadcast of the World Cup game before the CELEBRATIONS and the medal handouts!! How stupid can ABC be? The single most important game of the planet and after we know who won, they stop the broadcast of the trophy/medal handouts and the team celebrations to switch to GOLF!!!. The celebrations is as important as the game. I couldn't believe it. Idiots. I had to go to other channels.
Flight152 From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 3291 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1742 times:
Jesus, did you really think another world cup thread was really necessary?
PSA53 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3004 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1717 times:
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): They ended the broadcast of the World Cup game before the CELEBRATIONS and the medal handouts!!
Welcome to UHF network TV.It's nothing new.The most infamous
cut-off,was the Oakland Raiders great comeback victory.
The network wrote the game off,felt Oakland had lost, and
switch programming during the game.Boy,did the network hear about that one!
Homer71 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2209 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1680 times:
Tiger Woods playing golf will fetch higher TV ratings than watching a post-game ceremony on another continent...smart move from a business aspect.
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Bravo45 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2165 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1673 times:
I don't know what I was watching, but one of the two, ESPN and ABC broadcasted the entire deal. There was a golf tournament going on, and I think they switched it once or showed the golf in between the breaks.
Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 7, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1669 times:
JpetekYXMD80 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 4227 posts, RR: 29 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1669 times:
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): They ended the broadcast of the World Cup game before the CELEBRATIONS and the medal handouts!! How stupid can ABC be?
No, they didn't. I guess how stupid can you be? They switched to a golf update for like a minute in between the two. If you turned it off then, sucks for you.
Boeing4ever From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1623 times:
Quoting JpetekYXMD80 (Reply 8): No, they didn't. I guess how stupid can you be? They switched to a golf update for like a minute in between the two. If you turned it off then, sucks for you.
Kinda like the Oakland incident...how ironic. Indeed though, the whole ceremony was broadcast on ABC, so I don't know what the thread starter is talking about. Seems like HE gave up to early...*again, like the Oakland incident*
AirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1616 times:
So then why did I take the time to get up go to the computer and start a pointless thread, even if they had updates the point is that they should have had the whole thing on, if you looked at other channels and the mexican channels they didn't take any breaks they just showed the ceremony, who cares about golf when it's one of the most important games out there?
Falcon84 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1595 times:
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): They ended the broadcast of the World Cup game before the CELEBRATIONS and the medal handouts!! How stupid can ABC be?
Yes, probably because they have to, since the PGA is a huge money-maker for the networks. They probaby HAD to cut back to the golf as soon as they could. It wasn't stupid, it was economics.
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): The single most important game of the planet and after we know who won, they stop the broadcast of the trophy/medal handouts and the team celebrations to switch to GOLF!!!.
Boo hoo. Again, the PGA bring in more money to ABC than the "single most important game of the planet".
S12PPL From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1540 times:
My fricken GOD who CARES??!!!??!!!
It's fricken soccer for crying out loud! It's kick and chase! They kick the ball....and everyone chases after it for 90 minutes....Unless the referee decides to just add some time at the end for whatever the fuck he wants to add it for. I simply cannot STAND kick and chase for that reason. Let's just....ADD time to a game! That'b be like in a major league baseball game, the umpire doing the following:
Bottom of the 9th, and it's 1-0, visitors on top. 3rd out happens, but the umpire stops everyone, and adds an inning because: There was a rain delay in the sixth, and after the sixth inning both pitchers struggled a little, and had to make a change, leading to a few hits which scored the only run for the visiting team. So, because of that 40 minute rain delay, we're going to add one more inning, JUST to make it fair.
KFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3262 posts, RR: 33 Reply 16, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1536 times:
Quoting AirWillie6475 (Thread starter): They ended the broadcast of the World Cup game before the CELEBRATIONS and the medal handouts!!
Like others here, I also saw it on ABC...
"About the only way to look at it, just a pity you are not POTUS KFLLCFII, seems as if we would all be better off."
AsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1528 times:
The local TV stations sell the advertisement time. Since the World Cup in the USA is as popular as watching dead baby autopsies, the time was selling for $5 a minute. Golf sells for $2000 a minute. If you're the station manager, what would you choose to televise?
Aloges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8355 posts, RR: 47 Reply 20, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1513 times:
Quoting AsstChiefMark (Reply 18): the time was selling for $5 a minute. Golf sells for $2000 a minute.
Sources?
I love it how a couple Americans always feel the need to come to a football thread just to tell everyone how they don't care about "soccer". Should I do the same in threads about baseball, American football, basketball and hockey?
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Walk together, talk together all ye peoples of the earth. Then, and only then, shall ye have peace.
25 Falcon84: Go ahead. Most of us who watch those sports won't give a rats' ass.
26 Newark777: The audio on that gets horribly out of sync after a short while, very unprofessional. Harry
27 AsstChiefMark: It would be pretty hard for him to kick a soccer ball around in a space that small. Mark
28 S12PPL: Actually....I know more than a few people that think soccer is a pointless sport.....
29 WellHung: To be fair, sometimes one player kicks the ball directly to another player and that player just kinda stands around with the ball for a bit. Seriousl
30 Aloges: Just like no one actually caring about people's dislike for football. Yeah... a lot like baseball itself, isn't it? Well, you can do a lot more with
31 AsstChiefMark: I like it when the advertising signs around the perimeter of the field scroll to show a different ad every few seconds. Mark
32 Aloges: The fact you're responding to one tells me you care, for instance. Now that doesn't feel quite right... Didn't do that during the world cup. [Edited
33 WellHung: You mean when players mysteriously crumble to the ground while clutching their ankles, knees, etc.? I agree, that is pretty funny.
34 Aloges: Nope, the ones where a player like Zidane in the game against Brazil handles the football like he's got a hand up in the sky above the field playing
35 AsstChiefMark: Well hell. It's a damned good thing I didn't watch it. It wouldn't have been any fun. Mark
36 WellHung: Not sure about that, but the part when he headbutted that guy was pretty cool. And that didn't involve kicking either, so maybe you're right.
38 LY744: I like it when WellHung makes a ridiculous number of posts to tell everyone how he doesn't care about soccer. LY744.
39 Aloges: WRONG GAME! What was that about the "American attention span" again? Hello... WellHung! No, that squirrel out there did not just do that!
40 WellHung: Almost as much fun as you making wildly unsupported claims. Did I say 'that part of the Brazil game'? Hmm... I must have forgotten already. But I thi
41 LY744: And they wonder why their sex lives are so disfunctional. LY744.
42 LY744: My hobby is better than your hobby. LY744.
43 Aloges: And it works every single time - all you have to do is say "football is a great sport" and he hums like a beehive! "Oooooh I don't care about soccer!
44 LY744: There's only one explanation: WellHung is the biggest soccer fan in the world... err United States. Him and KROC practically run American soccer and
45 WellHung: There you go again! Aww... a whole made up conversation just for me. And the great part is that the entire thing could have been written during just
47 Aloges: ...or one of the breaks a baseball player gets "between" the "action".
48 JpetekYXMD80: Question of the day!! Believe me, I watched the whole thing and there was all the postgame and celebration coverage that was necessary, as the others
49 WellHung: While the effort was there, this shot sailed high. Nah, they spend that time doing more important things... like scratching their balls.
50 AirWillie6475: That makes sense, I guess it could have been just the west coast or something.
51 IFEMaster: I'm West Coast, and it was all just fine in OC. ABC switched to about 30 econds of PGA coverage during the commercial break, and then switched back a
52 Tom in NO: "You mean ABC carried the World Cup final.....we never even noticed.....or cared." Signed, 99.999999999998% of the US population
53 IFEMaster: Anyone else tired of the anti-soccer posts? By the way, Tom, you're wrong. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colum...estand-tv/2006-06-15-weekend_x.htm
56 Tom in NO: " target=_blank>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colum...x.htm I forgot to mention the second thing we don't care about over here.....editorial columns
57 AirWillie6475: No, they couldn't score a goal if their life depended on it, Italy even scored for them.
58 IFEMaster: I wonder if you know the difference between close-minded pig-headedness and simply respecting the fact that other people like things that you don't.
59 IFEMaster: I wonder if you know the difference between close-minded pig-headedness and simply respecting the fact that other people like things that you don't.
61 Tom in NO: Might want to reread my post.....national sports heroes, deciding game of a championship, etc, etc. Care to tackle the shootout comment.....or are yo
62 IFEMaster: Dude, I'm sure at some point in some deciding game in the history of one of the big four sports in the US, somebody has done something stupid that ef
63 Tom in NO: Agreed.....when did they do away with the "Golden Goal" or "Sudden Death" as we call it here in the US? It seems to me that's the way to go. I'm game
64 IFEMaster: I think they abolished it after the 1998 World Cup. I kinda liked it, but I'd rather see a 90 minute game, then if it's tied after 90 minutes, a repl
65 Ezeiza: no offence but that was even worse than a shootout. At least in the shootout its a striker shooting o goal, 5 times per team, kind of the essence of
66 JpetekYXMD80: Hows that any different than conventional soccer?
67 Boeing757/767: Would you guys who are bad-mouthing soccer give it up already? What are you afraid of? Unless you've played the game (as I have) or have lived in anot
68 Tom in NO: While I recognize that could be an option, I would think that the logistics would be not be easy to overcome, primarily when it comes to hotel room a
69 EZEIZA: I agree, but I'm sure FIFA must be able to overcome that. they can manage to place 32 teams, fans, journalists and more for a month, I am sure that a
70 Derico: EZEIZA, How is it possible that I see your name entirely in capital letters in some posts and not in others???!
71 ALOGES: That depends on what you type in the field "username" in the individual post. See right above this one.
72 Derico: I always thought it was case sensitive given so many nicknames like UAL_757spotter, et all... wow.
73 EZEIZA: wow, I never noticed that. The thing is right now I'm at home, so the name is in full capital letters, but from work, i must have logged in differentl
74 Boeing757/767: Just read in my local paper that ABC's ratings for the World Cup were triple that of 2002.
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